`Allow 38 students to write NEET'

Chennai: TIMES NEWS NETWORK





Just 10 days before NEET, the Madras high court has directed CBSE to permit 38 MBBS-aspirants from rural TN to write the examination after collecting fees. The students could not complete necessary formalities by April 5, the last date for online registration of candidates, because of technical glitches such as non-receipt of one-time password or payment-related difficulties owing to poor internet connection. The last date ended on March 1. Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana, while lauding the CBSE's online registration system, said, “Better connectivity has to be addressed or provisions ought to have been made for an alternate method for the situation like the present cases.Admittedly , a group of students had gone to the same internet centre to make their application form online.Though they were successful till the stage of applying and getting it registered, they were unsuccessful in completing the procedure by paying the required fees.No malafides can be imputed to these candidates who could not remit the fees online in the absence of any alternate mode.“